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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Yakuza characteristics.


Yakuza is not a secret society not like the other counterparts such as Italian mafia and Chinese triads.Yakuza organization have their own office as their headquater(HQ),they displaying their wooden board crafted with their organization group name or emblem on the front door.

Member of the yakuza group often wear sunglasses and colourful suits only by that they can be recognize differ from the other group.The way many Yakuza walk is different from ordinary citizens. They arrogant, different from the quiet, unassuming way many Japanese go about their business. Yakuza dress more conservative and display their tattoos to indicate affiliation when the need arises and to show off.

Recently, the majority of yakuza income came from protection shopping, entertainment and red-light districts within their territory. This is mainly because people in their territory scared to seek help from the goverment police. The Japanese police itself reluctantly to interfere and interrupt in internal matters such as small matters like schools,universities and many more.
In this sense, people still thought that yakuza is a semi-legitimate organizations because these organization did not get any approval from the goverment for a legal society licent.After the local earthquake such as in Kobe, the Yamaguchi-gumi, whose headquarters are in Kobe have been mobilised to provide disaster relief services and this was reported by the media as a contrast to the response compared from the the Japanese government helping the disaster victims.For this reason, many yakuza regard their income and hustle (shinogi) as a collection of a feudal tax.
Yakuza involved in sex-related industries, such as smuggling,importing and exporting uncensored pornography from Europe and America into Japan because the pornograph from Japan itself was being censored unlike the western pornography.They control large prostitution activities throughout the country. In China,the local law restricts and limiting the number of children per household and family, the cultural priority for boys and because of this,the yakuza can buy unwanted girls as low as $5,000 or cheaper and put them to work in themizu shobai means 'water trade' refers to the night entertainment business, in yakuza-controlled bars, nightclubs and restaurants.

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